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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
50 by sharing linedata.h functions):
54 test/test_add_wchstr.c
55 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
56 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
57 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
60 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
62 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
63 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
64 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
65 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
69 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
70 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
71 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
72 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
75 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
76 amd64 (Debian #542031).
77 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
80 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
83 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
84 broken in 20090509 merging.
85 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
86 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
87 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
88 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
89 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
90 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
91 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
92 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
94 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
97 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
98 implementation details of hash function.
101 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
102 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
103 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
106 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
107 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
108 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
110 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
111 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
114 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
115 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
119 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
122 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
124 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
125 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
126 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
127 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
128 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
130 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
131 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
132 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
135 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
136 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
137 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
140 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
141 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
143 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
146 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
147 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
149 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
150 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
154 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
155 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
156 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
159 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
162 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
165 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
166 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
167 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
168 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
171 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
174 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
175 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
176 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
177 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
181 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
184 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
185 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
188 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
191 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
195 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
198 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
199 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
200 part of the form library.
203 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
204 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
207 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
208 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
209 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
210 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
211 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
212 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
213 a temporary variable.
214 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
215 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
216 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
217 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
218 with Charles Wilson).
219 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
220 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
221 > patches by Charles Wilson:
222 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
223 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
224 digits, after the final '.').
225 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
226 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
227 using that in the libtool link-commands.
228 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
229 from 2009031 changes.
230 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
231 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
232 termlib) is to be linked.
233 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
234 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
237 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
238 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
239 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
240 (report by Charles Wilson).
241 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
242 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
243 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
244 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
245 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
248 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
249 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
250 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
251 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
252 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
254 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
255 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
256 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
257 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
258 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
259 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
260 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
261 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
264 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
265 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
266 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
269 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
272 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
274 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
275 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
276 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
277 some internals work is needed to complete these).
278 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
281 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
282 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
283 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
284 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
285 + make it work with $DESTDIR
286 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
289 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
290 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
292 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
293 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
294 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
297 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
298 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
299 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
300 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
301 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
302 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
303 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
304 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
305 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
308 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
309 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
311 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
313 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
314 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
317 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
319 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
320 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
321 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
322 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
325 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
326 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
327 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
329 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
330 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
333 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
334 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
335 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
336 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
337 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
338 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
340 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
341 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
343 + update config.guess, config.sub from
344 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
347 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
348 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
349 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
352 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
353 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
354 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
356 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
357 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
360 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
362 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
363 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
364 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
366 + fixes from NetBSD port at
367 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
368 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
369 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
370 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
371 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
373 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
374 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
377 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
378 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
379 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
380 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
381 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
382 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
383 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
384 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
385 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
386 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
387 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
390 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
391 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
392 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
393 passing color or video attributes.
394 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
395 display meta-characters.
396 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
397 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
398 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
399 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
403 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
404 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
405 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
407 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
410 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
412 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
413 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
415 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
418 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
419 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
420 does not work well on that platform).
421 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
424 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
425 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
426 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
428 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
429 --disable-database is used.
430 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
431 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
432 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
433 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
437 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
438 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
439 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
440 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
441 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
442 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
443 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
447 + update html documentation.
448 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
449 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
450 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
451 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
452 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
453 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
454 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
455 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
458 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
459 works for C/C++ parts).
460 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
461 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
464 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
465 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
466 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
467 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
468 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
469 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
470 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
471 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
472 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
474 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
475 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
476 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
477 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
478 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
479 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
482 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
483 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
486 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
487 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
488 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
489 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
490 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
491 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
494 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
495 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
498 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
502 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
503 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
504 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
505 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
507 + update test/configure script.
508 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
509 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
510 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
511 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
512 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
515 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
516 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
518 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
520 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
521 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
522 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
523 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
524 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
525 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
526 + update config.guess, config.sub from
527 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
528 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
531 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
532 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
533 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
534 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
535 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
536 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
537 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
538 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
539 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
540 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
541 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
545 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
546 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
547 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
548 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
549 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
551 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
552 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
553 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
554 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
555 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
558 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
559 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
560 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
561 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
562 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
563 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
564 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
567 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
571 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
574 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
577 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
578 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
580 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
581 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
582 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
586 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
587 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
589 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
590 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
591 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
592 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
595 + regenerated html documentation.
596 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
597 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
598 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
599 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
600 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
603 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
604 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
605 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
609 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
610 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
611 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
612 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
613 window which is being used in a wgetch().
614 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
617 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
618 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
620 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
621 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
622 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
623 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
624 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
625 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
626 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
627 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
628 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
631 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
632 screen which must be updated.
633 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
634 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
635 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
639 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
640 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
642 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
644 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
645 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
648 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
649 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
650 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
652 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
656 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
657 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
658 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
661 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
662 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
663 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
664 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
667 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
668 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
670 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
672 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
675 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
676 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
677 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
678 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
679 python-dev2 mailing list).
682 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
683 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
684 are not associated with a particular screen.
685 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
686 stdscr to the callback function.
687 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
688 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
689 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
690 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
691 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
692 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
693 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
697 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
698 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
699 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
700 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
702 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
703 wide-characters with extended-colors.
704 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
705 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
706 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
709 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
710 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
711 that the 'F' accepts.
712 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
713 are working concurrently.
714 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
718 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
719 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
723 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
724 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
727 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
728 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
731 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
732 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
733 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
734 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
737 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
738 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
739 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
740 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
741 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
742 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
744 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
745 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
749 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
750 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
751 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
754 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
755 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
756 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
759 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
760 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
761 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
765 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
766 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
767 "link_test" builds properly.
768 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
769 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
770 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
771 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
772 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
773 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
774 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
776 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
779 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
783 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
784 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
787 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
789 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
790 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
791 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
794 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
795 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
797 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
798 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
799 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
800 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
804 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
805 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
806 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
807 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
808 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
810 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
811 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
812 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
816 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
817 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
820 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
822 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
824 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
828 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
829 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
831 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
832 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
833 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
834 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
835 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
837 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
838 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
841 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
842 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
843 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
844 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
847 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
848 calls within the ncurses library.
849 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
851 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
852 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
853 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
855 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
856 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
857 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
858 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
859 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
862 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
863 for threaded library (incomplete).
864 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
865 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
869 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
870 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
871 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
872 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
873 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
874 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
875 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
876 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
877 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
880 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
882 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
883 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
886 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
887 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
888 "\0" followed by a digit.
889 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
890 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
891 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
892 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
893 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
894 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
895 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
896 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
897 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
900 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
901 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
902 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
903 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
904 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
906 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
907 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
908 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
912 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
913 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
914 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
915 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
916 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
917 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
918 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
919 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
920 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
923 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
924 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
925 + add test/test_getstr.c
926 + add test/test_inwstr.c
927 + add test/test_instr.c
930 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
931 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
932 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
936 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
937 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
938 ".log" to the name and try again.
939 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
940 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
941 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
942 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
943 --disable-echo option is used.
944 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
945 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
946 + update config.guess, config.sub
949 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
950 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
951 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
955 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
956 problems with multi-column characters.
957 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
958 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
959 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
960 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
961 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
962 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
963 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
966 + add test/demo_panels.c
967 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
970 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
972 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
973 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
976 + add test/key_name.c
977 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
978 + update test/configure
979 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
980 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
981 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
985 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
986 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
987 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
988 illustrate how to use mvcur().
989 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
990 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
991 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
992 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
993 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
996 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
997 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
998 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
999 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1000 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1001 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1004 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1005 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1007 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1008 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1009 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1010 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1013 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1014 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1015 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1016 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1018 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1020 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1021 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1022 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1023 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1024 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1027 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1028 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1030 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1031 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1032 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1033 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1034 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1035 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1036 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1037 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1038 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1039 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1040 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1043 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1044 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1045 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1046 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1047 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1048 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1049 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1052 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1053 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1054 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1055 Ada95 tree is not built.
1058 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1059 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1060 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1061 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1062 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1063 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1065 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1066 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1067 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1068 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1069 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1070 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1071 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1072 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1073 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1074 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1075 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1076 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1077 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1078 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1079 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1080 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1081 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1082 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1083 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1085 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1086 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1087 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1088 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1089 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1090 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1091 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1092 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1093 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1096 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1097 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1098 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1099 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1100 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1101 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1102 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1103 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1107 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1108 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1109 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1110 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1111 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1115 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1116 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1117 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1118 in the configure script to an error.
1119 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1120 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1121 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1122 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1123 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1125 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1126 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1129 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1130 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1133 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1134 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1136 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1137 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1138 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1139 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1140 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1141 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1142 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1143 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1146 + regenerated html documentation.
1147 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1148 opaque in selected configurations.
1149 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1150 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1151 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1152 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1153 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1154 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1155 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1156 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1157 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1158 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1159 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1161 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1162 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1165 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1166 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1167 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1168 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1169 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1170 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1171 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1172 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1173 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1174 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1175 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1176 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1179 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1181 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1182 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1183 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1185 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1186 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1187 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1188 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1189 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1190 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1191 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1192 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1194 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1195 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1198 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1199 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1201 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1203 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1204 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1205 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1208 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1209 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1210 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1211 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1213 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1214 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1215 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1216 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1217 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1218 no longer relies on it.
1219 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1220 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1221 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1224 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1225 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1228 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1229 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1230 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1231 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1232 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1233 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1234 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1235 its license consistent with ncurses.
1236 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1237 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1238 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1241 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1242 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1243 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1244 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1248 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1249 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1250 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1252 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1253 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1256 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1257 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1258 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1261 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1262 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1263 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1264 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1265 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1266 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1267 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1268 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1269 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1270 to manpages as needed.
1271 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1272 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1275 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1276 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1277 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1278 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1279 + update config.guess, config.sub
1281 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1284 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1285 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1286 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1287 correct nor portable.
1288 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1290 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1291 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1295 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1296 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1297 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1298 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1299 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1300 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1303 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1304 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1305 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1306 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1308 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1309 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1310 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1311 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1312 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1313 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1314 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1315 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1318 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1319 database configuration.
1320 + updates for test/configure script.
1321 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1322 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1324 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1325 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1326 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1327 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1329 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1330 _nc_printf_string().
1331 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1332 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1335 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1336 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1338 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1339 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1343 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1344 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1347 + add test/echochar.c
1348 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1349 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1352 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1353 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1354 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1355 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1358 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1359 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1360 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1362 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1363 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1364 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1365 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1366 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1367 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1368 Ralf S Engelschall).
1369 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1370 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1371 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1372 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1375 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1376 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1377 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1380 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1381 and status line (Alain Bench).
1382 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1383 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1384 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1385 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1388 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1389 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1390 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1391 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1392 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1395 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1396 + updated html documentation.
1397 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1398 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1401 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1402 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1403 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1404 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1405 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1406 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1407 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1408 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1409 by report by Christopher Parker).
1413 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1414 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1415 since it does not really do this -TD
1418 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1419 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1420 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1421 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1424 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1425 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1426 embedded into a termcap description.
1427 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1428 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1429 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1430 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1432 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1435 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1437 + add test/foldkeys.c
1440 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1441 source output (Debian #378783).
1442 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1443 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1444 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1445 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1446 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1447 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1450 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1451 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1452 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1455 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1456 or as a text file if those are not available.
1457 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1458 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1459 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1462 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1463 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1464 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1465 + update config.guess, config.sub
1468 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1469 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1470 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1472 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1473 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1475 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1476 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1477 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1478 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1479 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1480 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1482 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1483 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1484 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1485 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1488 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1489 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1493 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1494 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1496 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1497 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1498 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1499 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1500 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1501 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1504 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1505 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1506 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1507 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1508 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1509 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1510 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1511 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1512 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1513 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1516 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1517 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1518 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1519 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1521 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1524 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1525 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1526 + minor copyright fixes.
1527 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1530 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1531 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1532 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1533 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1534 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1535 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1536 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1537 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1539 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1540 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1541 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1542 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1544 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1547 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1548 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1550 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1551 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1552 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1553 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1555 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1556 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1557 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1558 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1561 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1562 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1563 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1564 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1565 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1566 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1567 + update config.guess, config.sub
1568 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1569 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1570 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1571 function is broken in that implementation.
1574 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1575 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1578 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1579 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1581 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1582 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1584 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1585 reported to implement this feature -TD
1588 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1589 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1592 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1593 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1594 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1595 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1596 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1597 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1598 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1599 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1602 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1603 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1605 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1606 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1609 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1610 (report by Alain Bench).
1611 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1612 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1613 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1614 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1616 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1617 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1618 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1622 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1623 and/or video attributes.
1624 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1625 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1628 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1631 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1632 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1633 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1634 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1635 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1636 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1637 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1638 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1639 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1642 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1643 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1644 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1647 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1648 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1649 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1650 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1651 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1652 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1653 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1654 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1655 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1656 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1659 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1660 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1661 rather than delayed.
1662 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1664 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1665 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1666 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1669 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1671 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1672 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1675 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1676 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1679 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1680 + suppress line-drawing
1681 + implement max_attributes
1683 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1684 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1688 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1689 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1691 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1693 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1694 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1695 etc., when allocating screens.
1698 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1699 this in test/filter.c
1700 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1704 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1705 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1706 + add extension nofilter().
1707 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1708 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1709 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1710 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1711 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1714 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1715 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1716 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1717 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1718 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1719 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1720 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1721 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1722 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1724 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1725 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1726 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1728 + update config.guess and config.sub
1731 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1732 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1733 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1735 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1736 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1737 that was never built in that directory).
1738 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1741 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1743 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1744 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1748 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1749 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1750 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1751 effect of the different functions.
1752 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1756 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1757 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1759 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1763 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1764 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1765 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1767 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1768 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1772 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1773 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1774 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1776 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1777 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1778 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1781 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1782 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1783 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1786 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1787 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1788 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1790 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1791 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1794 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1795 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1796 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1797 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1798 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1799 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1800 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1803 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1804 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1805 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1807 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1808 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1809 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1810 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1811 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1813 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1816 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1819 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1820 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1824 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1825 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1826 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1827 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1828 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1830 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1831 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1834 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1835 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1836 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1837 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1838 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1839 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1840 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1841 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1842 default if it is used.
1843 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1844 --with-abi-version option was used.
1845 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1846 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1847 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1850 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1851 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1852 handlers (Debian #326709).
1855 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1856 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1858 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1861 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1862 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1863 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1864 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1866 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1867 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1870 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1871 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1872 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1873 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1874 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1875 + update llib-l* files.
1878 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1879 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1880 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1881 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1885 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1886 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1887 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1888 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1889 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1890 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1891 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1892 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1893 Konstantin Andreev).
1896 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1897 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1898 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1899 several related cases -TD
1900 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1901 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1903 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1904 resets line-drawing.
1907 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1909 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1910 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1911 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1912 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1913 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1914 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1917 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1918 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1919 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1921 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1922 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1925 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1926 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1927 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1928 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1929 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1930 "make install.data" step.
1931 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1932 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1933 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1934 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1935 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1936 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1937 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1938 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1939 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1940 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1941 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1942 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1943 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1944 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1947 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1950 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1951 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1952 review of Debian package).
1953 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1954 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1955 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1956 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1957 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1959 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1960 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1961 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1962 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1963 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1966 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1967 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1968 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1971 + fixes for termcap support:
1972 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1973 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1974 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1975 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1976 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1978 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1979 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1980 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1981 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1984 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1985 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1986 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1987 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1989 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1993 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1995 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1996 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1999 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2000 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2001 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2002 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2003 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2004 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2005 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2009 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2010 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2011 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2012 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2013 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2014 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2015 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2016 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2017 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2018 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2022 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2023 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2024 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2028 + update config.guess, config.sub
2029 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2030 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2031 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2032 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2033 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2035 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2036 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2037 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2040 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2041 position the mouse to a particular item.
2042 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2043 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2044 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2045 --enable-const option.
2048 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2049 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2050 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2051 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2052 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2053 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2054 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2055 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2056 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2057 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2058 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2061 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2063 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2064 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2067 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2068 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2069 anyone used that configuration.
2070 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2072 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2073 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2076 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2077 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2078 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2080 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2081 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2082 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2085 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2086 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2087 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2091 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2092 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2093 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2094 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2095 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2098 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2100 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2102 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2103 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2104 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2107 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2109 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2110 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2111 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2112 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2113 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2114 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2115 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2116 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2117 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2118 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2119 right (cf: 20040228).
2120 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2121 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2124 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2125 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2126 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2127 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2128 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2129 added (Debian #295083).
2130 + add traces to panel library.
2133 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2134 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2135 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2136 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2137 mouse events in this case.
2138 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2139 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2142 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2143 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2144 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2145 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2146 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2147 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2148 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2149 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2152 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2153 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2154 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2155 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2156 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2157 already been started.
2158 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2159 pair_content() and color_content().
2160 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2161 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2162 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2163 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2164 color pairs which are allowed.
2165 + add a top-level tags rule.
2168 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2169 first calling initscr().
2170 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2171 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2172 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2173 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2174 that are curses-specific.
2175 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2176 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2177 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2178 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2182 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2183 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2184 for leading whitespace.
2185 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2186 where a following line begins in column 1.
2187 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2188 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2191 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2194 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2195 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2196 + update config.guess, config.sub
2197 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2198 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2199 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2200 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2201 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2202 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2203 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2206 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2208 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2209 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2212 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2213 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2214 and attr_set functions.
2217 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2218 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2219 forms-demo to be one character short.
2220 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2221 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2222 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2223 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2226 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2227 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2228 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2229 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2231 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2232 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2235 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2236 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2237 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2238 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2239 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2240 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2241 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2243 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2244 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2246 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2247 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2250 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2251 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2252 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2253 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2254 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2255 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2256 wide-character configuration.
2259 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2260 or multicolumn characters.
2263 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2264 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2265 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2266 use_default_colors() be called first.
2269 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2270 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2271 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2272 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2273 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2274 must be wrapped to a new line.
2275 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2276 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2277 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2278 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2279 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2283 + minor fixes for traces.
2284 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2285 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2286 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2290 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2291 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2292 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2293 and shift-out which seem to work.
2294 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2295 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2298 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2299 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2300 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2301 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2305 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2306 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2307 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2308 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2311 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2312 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2313 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2314 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2315 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2316 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2317 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2318 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2319 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2320 is no longer experimental.
2321 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2322 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2325 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2328 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2329 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2330 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2331 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2332 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2333 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2334 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2335 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2338 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2339 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2340 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2341 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2342 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2343 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2344 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2345 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2348 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2349 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2350 > terminfo updates -TD
2351 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2352 with the common usage of bce/ech
2353 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2357 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2358 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2359 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2360 a help window as well.
2361 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2362 the -d option is set.
2363 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2366 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2368 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2369 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2373 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2374 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2375 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2376 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2377 patch by Hans de Goede)
2378 > terminfo updates -TD
2379 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2380 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2381 + add function-keys to decansi
2382 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2383 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2384 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2387 > terminfo updates -TD
2388 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2389 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2391 + review/update konsole entries
2392 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2393 + correct tsl string in kterm
2396 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2399 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2400 multibyte character.
2401 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2403 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2404 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2405 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2406 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2407 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2408 converting termcap to termcap format.
2409 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2410 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2411 > terminfo updates -TD
2412 + minor fixes for emu
2414 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2419 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2420 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2421 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2422 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2423 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2424 > terminfo updates -TD
2425 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2427 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2428 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2429 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2432 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2433 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2435 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2436 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2437 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2438 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2439 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2440 + update config.guess, config.sub
2441 > terminfo updates -TD
2443 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2444 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2445 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2450 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2451 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2452 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2455 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2456 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2457 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2459 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2463 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2464 field_buffer() results.
2465 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2468 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2470 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2471 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2472 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2473 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2474 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2477 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2478 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2479 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2483 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2484 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2486 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2489 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2490 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2491 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2492 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2493 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2494 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2495 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2496 information without an option.
2497 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2498 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2501 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2504 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2505 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2506 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2507 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2508 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2509 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2510 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2512 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2515 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2516 to an unsigned char.
2517 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2518 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2521 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2524 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2525 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2526 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2527 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2528 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2529 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2530 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2531 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2532 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2533 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2534 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2537 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2538 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2539 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2540 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2543 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2545 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2546 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2549 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2550 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2551 mode is shown in that test.
2552 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2553 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2554 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2557 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2559 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2560 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2561 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2562 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2564 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2565 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2566 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2567 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2570 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2571 (request by Mike Aubury).
2572 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2574 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2576 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2579 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2580 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2581 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2582 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2583 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2584 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2585 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2586 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2587 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2588 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2590 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2593 20040207 pre-release
2594 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2595 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2596 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2597 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2598 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2600 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2601 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2602 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2604 20040131 pre-release
2605 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2606 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2607 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2608 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2609 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2610 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2611 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2612 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2613 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2614 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2615 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2617 20040125 pre-release
2618 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2619 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2620 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2621 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2622 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2623 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2624 modifying the displayed value.
2626 20040124 pre-release
2627 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2628 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2629 that works better for cross-compiling.
2631 20040117 pre-release
2632 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2633 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2634 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2635 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2636 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2637 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2638 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2640 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2641 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2643 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2644 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2645 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2646 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2647 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2648 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2649 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2650 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2651 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2652 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2653 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2654 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2656 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2657 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2658 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2659 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2660 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2661 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2662 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2663 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2665 20040110 pre-release
2666 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2667 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2669 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2670 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2672 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2674 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2675 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2676 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2677 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2678 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2681 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2682 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2683 + add pecho_wchar().
2684 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2685 available) on older platforms.
2688 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2689 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2690 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2691 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2692 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2693 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2694 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2695 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2696 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2699 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2700 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2701 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2702 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2703 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2704 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2708 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2709 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2710 applications do not.
2711 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2712 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2713 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2714 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2715 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2716 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2720 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2721 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2722 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2723 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2724 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2725 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2726 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2727 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2728 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2729 awkward for some cases.
2730 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2731 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2733 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2734 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2735 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2736 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2737 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2741 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2742 values (Philippe Blain).
2743 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2744 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2745 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2749 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2750 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2751 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2752 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2753 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2754 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2758 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2759 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2760 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2762 + update config.guess, config.sub
2765 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2766 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2767 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2768 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2769 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2770 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2771 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2773 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2774 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2775 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2776 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2777 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2780 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2781 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2782 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2783 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2784 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2785 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2786 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2787 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2789 + regenerated html documentation.
2790 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2791 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2792 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2795 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2796 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2797 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2798 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2799 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2800 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2801 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2802 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2806 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2807 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2810 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2811 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2812 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2813 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2815 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2816 (report by Philippe Blain).
2819 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2820 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2821 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2822 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2823 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2824 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2825 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2826 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2827 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2829 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2831 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2832 in the clr_bol logic.
2835 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2836 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2837 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2838 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2839 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2840 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2841 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2842 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2843 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2844 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2845 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2846 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2849 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2850 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2851 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2852 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2855 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2856 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2857 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2858 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2859 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2860 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2861 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2862 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2863 --with-install-prefix is used.
2866 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2867 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2868 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2869 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2872 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2873 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2874 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2875 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2876 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2877 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2878 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2879 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2880 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2883 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2884 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2885 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2886 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2887 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2888 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2889 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2892 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2894 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2895 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2896 the size of the scroll-region.
2897 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2900 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2901 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2902 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2906 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2907 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2908 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2909 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2910 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2912 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2913 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2914 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2915 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2916 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2917 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2918 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2919 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2920 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2921 usage and to prevent circular links.
2922 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2923 (rxvt-color): new alias
2924 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2925 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2926 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2927 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2928 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2929 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2931 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2935 + update config.guess, config.sub
2936 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2937 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2940 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2941 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2942 would not accept gcc warning options.
2943 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2944 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2945 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2946 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2947 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2948 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2949 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2951 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2954 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2955 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2956 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2957 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2958 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2959 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2960 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2961 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2964 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2966 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2967 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2968 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2969 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2972 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2974 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2975 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2976 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2977 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2978 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2979 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2982 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2983 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2984 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2985 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2986 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2987 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2988 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2989 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2991 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2992 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2993 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2994 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2997 + regenerated html manpages.
2998 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2999 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
3001 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
3002 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
3004 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
3005 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
3008 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
3009 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3010 + add tkterm entry -TD
3011 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
3012 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
3013 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
3014 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
3016 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
3017 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
3018 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3020 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3021 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3022 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3025 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3026 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3027 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3028 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3030 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3031 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3032 current test programs.
3033 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3034 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3035 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3036 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3038 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3039 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3040 mentioned in the terminfo.
3041 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3042 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3045 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3046 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3047 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3048 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3049 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3050 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3051 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3052 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3055 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3056 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3057 the editing position before making modifications.
3058 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3059 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3060 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3063 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3064 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3065 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3066 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3068 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3069 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3070 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3071 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3072 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3073 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3076 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3077 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3078 code, from recent rewrite.
3079 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3081 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3082 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3085 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3086 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3087 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3088 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3091 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3092 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3094 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3097 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3099 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3100 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3102 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3103 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3104 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3107 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3108 a file when ^W is given.
3109 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3113 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3114 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3115 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3116 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3117 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3118 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3119 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3120 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3124 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3125 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3126 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3129 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3130 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3131 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3132 baudrate was not known.
3133 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3134 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3135 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3136 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3137 corresponding capability might be
3139 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3140 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3141 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3142 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3145 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3146 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3147 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3148 apparently typedef'd.
3149 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3150 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3153 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3154 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3155 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3156 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3157 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3158 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3159 cached for reallocating.
3162 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3163 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3164 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3166 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3167 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3168 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3169 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3170 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3171 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3172 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3173 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3176 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3177 emx-base to the latter -TD
3178 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3179 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3182 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3183 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3184 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3185 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3186 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3189 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3190 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3191 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3192 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3193 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3194 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3195 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3197 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3198 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3199 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3200 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3201 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3204 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3205 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3206 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3207 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3208 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3209 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3211 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3212 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3213 is indeed a "blank".
3214 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3215 sections as small as one line.
3216 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3218 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3219 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3220 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3223 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3224 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3227 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3228 (report by Philippe Blain).
3229 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3230 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3231 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3232 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3233 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3235 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3236 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3237 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3238 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3239 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3240 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3243 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3244 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3246 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3247 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3249 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3250 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3251 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3252 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3255 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3256 overridden from the environment.
3257 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3258 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3259 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3260 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3261 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3262 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3263 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3264 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3265 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3266 by Sam Varshavchik).
3267 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3268 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3269 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3270 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3272 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3273 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3274 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3275 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3276 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3279 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3280 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3281 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3282 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3283 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3284 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3285 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3286 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3287 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3288 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3289 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3290 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3291 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3292 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3293 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3294 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3295 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3296 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3297 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3298 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3299 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3300 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3301 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3304 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3305 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3306 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3307 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3308 winsch() internal function.
3309 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3310 more than one spacing character.
3313 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3314 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3315 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3316 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3317 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3318 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3319 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3320 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3321 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3322 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3325 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3326 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3327 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3328 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3329 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3330 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3331 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3334 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3335 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3336 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3337 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3339 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3340 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3341 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3342 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3343 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3346 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3347 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3348 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3349 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3350 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3351 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3352 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3353 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3354 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3355 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3356 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3357 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3358 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3359 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3360 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3361 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3362 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3365 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3366 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3367 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3368 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3369 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3370 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3371 Frederic L W Meunier).
3373 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3374 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3375 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3376 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3377 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3378 the debug trace in that case.
3379 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3380 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3381 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3382 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3384 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3385 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3387 20021005 pre-release
3388 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3389 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3390 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3391 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3392 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3393 formats such as "%.*s".
3394 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3395 (report Floyd Davidson).
3396 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3398 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3399 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3400 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3402 20020928 pre-release
3403 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3404 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3405 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3407 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3408 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3409 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3410 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3411 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3412 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3413 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3414 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3415 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3416 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3417 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3418 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3419 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3420 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3421 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3422 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3423 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3424 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3425 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3427 20020921 pre-release
3428 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3429 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3430 result in core dump.
3431 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3432 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3433 delimiter rather than '@'.
3434 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3435 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3436 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3437 to the lines given for the destination window.
3439 20020914 pre-release
3440 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3441 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3442 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3443 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3444 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3445 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3446 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3447 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3448 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3449 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3450 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3451 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3453 20020907 pre-release
3454 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3455 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3456 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3457 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3458 html manpages on Debian.
3459 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3460 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3461 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3462 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3463 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3464 a variable from the stack.
3465 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3467 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3468 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3469 _idcok window fields.
3470 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3472 20020901 pre-release
3473 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3474 + update config.guess, config.sub
3475 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3476 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3478 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3479 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3480 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3481 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3482 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3483 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3484 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3485 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3486 use in resizeterm().
3487 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3488 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3489 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3490 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3491 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3492 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3493 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3494 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3495 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3496 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3497 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3501 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3502 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3503 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3504 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3505 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3506 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3509 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3510 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3511 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3512 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3513 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3514 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3515 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3516 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3517 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3519 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3520 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3524 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3525 when translating to termcap.
3526 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3527 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3528 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3530 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3532 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3533 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3535 + document TABSIZE variable.
3536 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3537 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3538 assume_default_colors().
3539 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3541 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3542 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3543 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3544 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3545 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3548 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3550 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3551 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3553 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3554 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3555 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3558 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3560 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3563 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3564 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3565 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3566 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3567 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3568 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3569 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3570 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3571 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3572 configure definitions.
3573 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3574 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3575 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3576 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3577 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3578 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3579 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3580 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3581 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3582 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3583 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3586 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3587 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3588 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3589 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3590 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3591 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3592 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3594 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3595 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3596 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3597 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3600 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3601 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3602 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3603 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3605 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3606 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3607 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3610 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3611 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3613 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3614 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3615 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3617 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3618 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3619 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3620 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3622 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3623 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3624 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3625 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3629 + add charset to generated html.
3630 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3631 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3632 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3633 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3634 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3635 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3639 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3640 key code in get_wch().
3641 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3642 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3643 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3644 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3645 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3646 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3649 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3650 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3652 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3653 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3654 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3655 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3658 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3659 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3660 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3661 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3662 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3663 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3664 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3665 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3666 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3667 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3670 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3674 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3675 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3676 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3677 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3678 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3679 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3680 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3683 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3684 character versions as well.
3685 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3687 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3689 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3690 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3691 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3692 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3693 if gettimeofday() is available.
3696 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3697 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3700 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3702 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3703 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3704 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3705 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3706 + update config.guess, config.sub
3709 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3710 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3711 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3712 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3713 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3714 alias for 'function'.
3717 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3718 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3722 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3723 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3724 + implement win_wchnstr().
3725 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3726 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3729 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3730 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3733 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3734 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3737 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3738 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3739 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3741 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3742 + implement unget_wch().
3743 + implement wget_wch().
3746 + regenerated html manpages.
3747 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3748 + implement wins_wch().
3749 + implement win_wch().
3750 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3753 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3754 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3757 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3758 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3759 + implement key_name().
3760 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3762 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3766 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3767 in spurious symlinks on install.
3770 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3771 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3772 box() and box_set() functions.
3773 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3774 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3775 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3776 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3777 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3778 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3779 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3781 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3783 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3784 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3785 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3786 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3788 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3789 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3792 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3793 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3795 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3799 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3801 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3802 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3803 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3804 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3805 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3806 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3807 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3808 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3809 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3810 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3811 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3812 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3813 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3814 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3815 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3818 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3819 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3822 + update config.guess, config.sub
3823 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3824 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3827 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3828 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3829 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3831 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3832 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3834 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3835 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3836 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3837 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3840 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3843 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3844 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3845 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3846 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3847 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3848 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3849 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3850 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3851 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3853 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3854 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3855 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3857 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3859 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3860 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3861 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3862 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3863 work with SunOS nawk.
3864 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3866 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3867 case it uses multiple tokens.
3870 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3871 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3872 interrupted by that signal.
3873 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3874 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3875 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3876 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3878 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3879 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3880 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3881 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3882 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3885 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3887 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3888 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3889 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3890 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3891 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3892 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3893 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3894 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3897 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3898 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3899 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3900 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3901 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3902 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3903 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3904 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3905 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3908 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3909 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3910 may have different keypad() settings.
3911 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3912 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3913 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3914 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3915 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3916 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3917 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3918 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3920 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3921 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3922 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3923 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3927 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3929 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3930 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3931 implementation in cygwin package).
3932 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3933 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3935 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3936 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3937 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3938 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3939 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3940 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3941 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3942 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3943 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3945 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3946 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3947 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3948 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3949 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3950 <jevans@apple.com>).
3951 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3952 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3953 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3954 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3955 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3959 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3960 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3961 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3962 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3963 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3964 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3965 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3966 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3967 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3968 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
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